Maxim Viktorovich Efimov (; born 1 November 1974) is a Ukrainian politician and former

People's Deputy of Ukraine A people's deputy of Ukraine (, ) is a member of parliament and legislator elected by Direct election, popular vote to the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament of Ukraine. They are often referred to simply as "deputies". Prior to 1991, the Verkhovna R ...

from Ukraine's 48th electoral district from 2014 to December 2023. Formerly an

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and member of the

Petro Poroshenko Bloc European Solidarity (, ; , YeS) is a political party in Ukraine. It has its roots in a parliamentary group called Solidarity dating from 2000 and has existed since in various forms as a political outlet for Petro Poroshenko. The party with its the ...

, and following this co-chair of

Restoration of Ukraine Restoration of Ukraine, also translated as Repair of Ukraine, (, ) is a parliamentary group in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, founded on 22 May 2022. The chairwoman of the group is Antonina Slavytska. As of December 2024, the group consists of 15 d ...

alongside

Igor Abramovych Igor Oleksandrovych Abramovych (; born 24 August 1984) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician, billionaire, he was People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2019 to 2023. Education Abramovych graduated from the Kharkiv Lyceum No. 174 "Professional" ...

Early life and career

Maxim Viktorovich Efimov was born on 1 November 1974 in the city of Petropavlovsk in the northern

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(now

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). He is a graduate of the

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's Department of Business Administration, the

Donetsk National University The Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University ( DonNU, ; ) is one of the leading higher educational institutions of Ukraine. In 2014, due to the war in Donbas, a number of teachers and students left Donetsk and subsequently reestablished the uni ...

(specialising in economics) and the

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(with a degree in ferrous metallurgy). Efimov began working in 1996, as general director of the

Kramatorsk Kramatorsk (, ; ) is a city and the administrative centre of Kramatorsk Raion in Donetsk Oblast of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Prior to 2020, Kramatorsk was a city of oblast significance. Since October 2014, Kramatorsk has been the ...

Metallurgical and Machine-Building Company. From 1997 to 1998, he worked at Kramatorsk Multi-Industry Marketing Company before moving to Kramatorsk Aeronautical School, where he remained for a year before moving to the plant in Kramatorsk. In 2006 or 2007, Efimov was appointed as head of EnerhoMashSpetsStal.

Political career

Efimov was first elected to a political position in the

2006 Ukrainian local elections The 2006 Ukrainian local elections took place on March 26, 2006. The elections saw the southern and eastern regions of the country vote for the Party of Regions, while the west and central regions were won by the Our Ukraine Bloc and Yulia Tymosh ...

, being elected to the

City Council as a member of

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. He was subsequently re-elected in the

2010 Ukrainian local elections The 2010 Ukrainian local elections took place on 31 October 2010,

, before leaving the Party of Regions on 25 August 2014. In the

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, Efimov was elected as a

from Ukraine's 48th electoral district (located in Kramatorsk), campaigning as an

. He defeated incumbent People's Deputy with 34.12% of the vote to Boyarskyi's 31.15%. In the

Verkhovna Rada The Verkhovna Rada ( ; VR), officially the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, is the unicameralism, unicameral parliament of Ukraine. It consists of 450 Deputy (legislator), deputies presided over by a speaker. The Verkhovna Rada meets in the Verkhovn ...

(Ukraine's parliament), Efimov joined the

faction, and was first deputy chair of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship. In the

2015 Ukrainian local elections On 25 October 2015 local elections took place in Ukraine. The elections were conducted a little over a year since the 2014 snap local elections, which were only held throughout parts of the country. A second round of voting for the election of ...

, Efimov ran to be mayor of

as the candidate of Our Land (though he was not a member of the party), but was unsuccessful after making it to the second round. Efimov ran again in the

2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 21 July 2019. Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October, the elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolved parli ...

as an independent in the 48th electoral district, and was again successfully elected, defeating independent candidate Denys Oshurko with 54.88% of the vote to Oshurko's 19.09%. In the Verkhovna Rada, he joined

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, and became a member of the Verkhovna Rada Human Rights Committee, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on the De-occupation and Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Minorities, and the Verkhovna Rada International Relations Committee. On 22 May 2022, Efimov, alongside 16 other People's Deputies, participated in the founding of the

parliamentary group. Efimov, along with

, was declared co-chairman of the parliamentary group. On 1 December 2023, Efimov announced he had decided to withdraw his powers as a people's deputy. he stated he did so to help solving the needs of the Kramatorsk region that had been that had been significantly hit by the

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in the

Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...

. On 8 December 2023 parliament officially terminated his parliamentary mandate.

References

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